writer
writer
subs.
P. συγγραφεύς, ὁ ; see author, poet.
Clerk: Ar. and P. γραμμᾰτεύς, ὁ.
subs.
P. συγγραφεύς, ὁ ; see author, poet.
Clerk: Ar. and P. γραμμᾰτεύς, ὁ.
WRITER
One who writes scribens: qui scribit: qui litteras scribit. A good writer qui eleganti or nitida manu litteras scribit (after Plaut. Pseud. 1 1 28). the writer of a letter qui litteras epistolam scripsit exaravit (after Cic.).
One whose profession or office it is to write scriba; also (post-Augustan) a manu servus; ab epistolis; amanuensis (secretary amanuensis); librarius (a transcriber of books).
Author of a book scriptor: qui librum scripsit or conscripsit (the actual writer of it): auctor (only so far as he is an authority for using a particular style for a particular statement etc.; hence not without a genitive unless this can easily be supplied by the context †): Roman writers Romani scriptores (who have written in Latin); rerum Romanarum auctores (Latin historians who are our authorities for Roman history); Latinitatis auctores (writers of classical Latinity).
Writers (as a class) without genitive qui libros scribunt or conscribunt.
One who writes scribens: qui scribit: qui litteras scribit. A good writer qui eleganti or nitida manu litteras scribit (after Plaut. Pseud. 1 1 28). the writer of a letter qui litteras epistolam scripsit exaravit (after Cic.).
One whose profession or office it is to write scriba; also (post-Augustan) a manu servus; ab epistolis; amanuensis (secretary amanuensis); librarius (a transcriber of books).
Author of a book scriptor: qui librum scripsit or conscripsit (the actual writer of it): auctor (only so far as he is an authority for using a particular style for a particular statement etc.; hence not without a genitive unless this can easily be supplied by the context †): Roman writers Romani scriptores (who have written in Latin); rerum Romanarum auctores (Latin historians who are our authorities for Roman history); Latinitatis auctores (writers of classical Latinity).
Writers (as a class) without genitive qui libros scribunt or conscribunt.